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Not out of the woods yet
The consequences of commercial timberland sales may not be as dire as some fear.
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Wives at work
From 1950 to 1990, married women tripled their hours in the workplace. New research suggests that reduced wage discrimination-not better appliances or higher incomes-caused this sea change in the workforce
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Condemned prosperity
The use of eminent domain for private development may benefit district communities, but it blights the overall economy.
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Disaster zone
The economics of catastrophe risks are fundamentally different from those of risks covered by standard insurance contracts. Size alone is not necessarily the critical difference, nor is the sporadic and unpredictable nature of catastrophes. The key unconventional features needed to deal with the large, time-varying, asymmetric risks inherent in catastrophes are: - between-group trades across time, not just within-group, pay-as-you-go risk pooling; - in normal times, payments by the risk-prone group to the relatively safe group; - when catastrophe strikes, large payments to the risk-prone ...
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Putting a price on carbon
To address global warming, most economists favor a focus on prices, not quantities.
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Pensions in peril
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On a trade mission
For district states, is it a pot-o-gold or a rainbow of hype at the end of a foreign trade mission?
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Dialing for dollars
Rural telephone companies in the district collect millions of dollars annually in universal service subsidies. Has the time come to let them fend for themselves?
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Broadband: not quite universal
Given the state of rural broadband, extending universal service to high-speed Internet access may be premature.
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Faces of change
In a flashback to the early 20th century, immigrants from all over the world are settling in the district, and not just in its inner cities.